• Republicans are racing to make workplaces more dangerous and unhealthy

    • March 22, 2017
    • Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
    • Category: Global Safety News
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    This article originally appeared in In These Times. “Every regulation should have to pass a simple test: Does it make life better or safer for American workers or consumers? If the answer is no, we will be getting rid of it and getting rid of it quickly,” President Donald Trump said as he signed an executive order establishing federal

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  • Republicans Are Racing to Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy

    • March 19, 2017
    • Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
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    Among the targets are rules that protect the manufacturing and construction workers the Trump administration claims to support.

    Among the targets are rules that protect the manufacturing and construction workers the Trump administration claims to support. (Photo: Pixabay) “Every regulation should have to pass a simple test: Does it make life better or safer for American workers or consumers? If the answer is no, we will be getting rid of it and getting

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  • Republicans Are Racing To Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy

    • March 17, 2017
    • Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
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    Wednesday, Mar 15, 2017, 7:12 pm BY Elizabeth Grossman Among the targets are rules that protect the manufacturing and construction workers the Trump administration claims to support. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)   “Every regulation should have to pass a simple test: Does it make life better or safer for American workers or

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  • More than 70% of workplaces affected by prescription drug misuse, NSC survey shows

    • March 9, 2017
    • Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
    • Category: Overseas Occupational Health And Safety News
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    More than 70 percent of employers reported that prescription drug misuse is having an impact on their workplace, according to the results of a survey recently conducted by the National Safety Council. In addition, 71 percent of employers agreed that prescription drug misuse is a disease, but 65 percent of those employers reported that they

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  • What's Your Opinion: Do you believe some individual workers are simply (and unintentionally) more injury-prone than others?

    • February 22, 2017
    • Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
    • Category: Overseas Occupational Health And Safety News
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    Safety+Health welcomes comments that promote respectful dialogue. Please stay on topic. Comments that contain personal attacks, profanity or abusive language – or those aggressively promoting products or services – will be removed. We reserve the right to determine which comments violate our comment policy. (Anonymous comments are welcome; merely skip the “name” field in the

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  • More non-fatal injuries at workplaces in 2016: Workplace Safety and Health Institute

    • February 14, 2017
    • Posted by: Sage Shield Safety Consultants
    • Category: Singapore Safety News
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    SINGAPORE – The number of non-fatal workplace injuries increased to 13,014 cases last year, a 5.4 per cent increase over the 12,351 cases in 2015, due mainly to an increase in minor injury cases. The fatal injury rate at workplaces in 2016 remained at 1.9 per 100,000 employed persons, according to a report released on

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